CMRS hosts a monthly medieval and Renaissance reading group for graduate students and faculty. CMRS-affiliated graduate students and faculty propose and share an article or a book particularly important for…
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California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2021
Published: September 9, 2020The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed research papers Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read…
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Published: September 9, 2020The Winter 2021 session of the California Medieval History Seminar will take place online instead of at its usual venue, the Huntington Library. The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed…
Read MoreAugustine’s Divjak Letters 10* and 24*: Slavery, Captivity, Status and Original Sin
Published: September 8, 2020Susanna Elm, Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of European History, UC Berkeley This presentation is part of the CMRS-sponsored Fall 2020 LAMAR Seminar: “The Late Antique World: Transitions and Transformations Between…
Read MoreEarly Christian Storyworlds
Published: September 8, 2020C. Michael Chin, Associate Professor of Classics, UC Davis This presentation is part of the CMRS-sponsored Fall 2020 LAMAR Seminar: “The Late Antique World: Transitions and Transformations Between Classical and…
Read MoreSigns of Sex: Comparative Semiotics of Virginity in the Greco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Worlds
Published: September 8, 2020CMRS Conference Organized by Giulia Sissa, Professor of Political Science and Classics, UCLA Virginity can be defined as a condition of sexual integrity, more specifically as the inexperience of full…
Read MoreSlavery’s Archive in the Premodern World
Published: September 8, 2020Watch this event on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2 CMRS Workshop organized and moderated by Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor, Arts of the Islamic World, UCLA Department of Art History. Slavery is…
Read MoreLaw and Disorder: Fools, Outlaws, and Justice in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – Day 1
Published: September 8, 2020CMRS Symposium Is justice possible when foolishness runs rampant? Are folly and mockery valid means to restrain those who abuse power and thwart just treatment of the populace? This virtual…
Read MoreSpatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico
Published: September 8, 2020Annual Armand Hammer Art History Lecture Watch this lecture on YouTube. This lecture by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Art History, Tulane), focuses on the painted books of Aztec Mexico, sixteenth-century documents that some…
Read More“The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic” – New Book Salon
Published: September 7, 2020Professor Andrea Moudarres, UCLA Department of Italian, discusses his recent book, The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic with Professor Gerry Milligan (Director of College Honors Programs, CUNY College of Staten…
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